I agree about the consistency. And possibly about the storytelling.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 29/11/2011 06:25:52 PM
I categorize her as somewhat average when compared to other fantasy authors. Credit to her for some original ideas and a slightly different twist to her world and development. However, she does little to distinguish her stories or her characters as anything particularly engaging.
In my opinion, she's to be rated above most other fantasy writers, but largely because of the character of Phèdre, who is and remains one of my all-time favourite fantasy characters - which is why I was far less impressed by her second trilogy, even though it really is hard to point at other meaningful differences between the two in terms of quality, as you note. The other characters in the books are not really beyond average, but inventing Phèdre was a stroke of genius that, combined with the other good ideas she had, made for a great trilogy. The second trilogy lacked any such stroke of genius, and the reader had grown accustomed to the most notable ideas, so it was rather less impressive.
Basically, what you see is pretty much what you get. If at the end of the book you don't find yourself much of a fan, that opinion probably won't change much in subsequent books. If you do like what you're reading, then Carey probably won't disappoint you in her other books. She is very consistent in what she writes.
Definitely true, if someone isn't satisfied by the end of Dart, there's no point in reading on.
So, for anyone who has read Kushiel's Dart by Jaqcuelyne Carey
- 29/11/2011 08:37:55 AM
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Carey is a decent writer
- 29/11/2011 04:03:45 PM
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really? I thought she had great storytelling
- 29/11/2011 04:31:05 PM
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I actually felt like the trilogy gained a lot of depth as it went on - the third book was the best.
- 29/11/2011 05:34:28 PM
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I agree about the consistency. And possibly about the storytelling.
- 29/11/2011 06:25:52 PM
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Re: I agree about the consistency. And possibly about the storytelling.
- 29/11/2011 07:13:22 PM
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Re: One of the major differences between Phaedre and Imriel is extremely simple.
- 29/12/2011 01:48:10 AM
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That's true... but I don't really think it's the decisive factor for me.
- 29/12/2011 07:18:06 PM
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Of course, you have to make allowances for a bat-shit insane culture
- 01/12/2011 05:02:27 AM
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I don't think I can come up with 10 fantasy cultures/mythologies which stand up to close examination *NM*
- 01/12/2011 09:11:07 AM
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